Category: Nerdery
Today I was wearing my Schrödinger’s Cat ((if you are unfamiliar with Schrödinger’s and his cat-related thought experiment, read this)) t-shirt: Which somehow lead to me finding this hilariousness, which I totally needed to share with you: Cartoon Credit: Posted by Jason Sweeney on Flickr.
I got a pedometer last week. I’ve been thinking that it would be interesting to have one for a while now and then I heard some news stories on studies showing that being inactive for long periods of time (say, sitting at your desk all day) is harmful to your health ((notably causing increased blood […]
Today is the last day of the Canadian Evaluation Society conference in Victoria. And, as I did yesterday and the day before, I’m using my blog as a dumping ground for my conference notes. For my regular blog readers, again please feel free to ignore these postings and I really, really promise to blog about […]
Today is the day 2 of the Canadian Evaluation Society conference in Victoria. And, as I did yesterday, I’m using my blog as a dumping ground for my conference notes. For my regular blog readers, again please feel free to ignore these postings and I promise to blog about zombie uprisings again soon. Jennifer Walinga […]
Today is the first full day of the Canadian Evaluation Society conference in Victoria. And, has become my custom, I’m using my blog as a dumping ground for my conference notes. Because that way I’m pretty sure I’ll be able to find them when I want them later (as opposed to them being on paper […]
Last night I went to a lovely wedding on a boat (congrats to Tanya & Barry on their nuputals!). We had to leave at 5:30 p.m. to go to Granville Island to board the boat. But the first game of the Canucks second round playoff series started at 5 p.m. and as we all know, […]
I’m taking a page out of The Bloggess‘ book for this posting. Sure, I’m not writing anything on this blog today, but if you just can’t get enough of Dr. Beth, then check out stuff I wrote elsewhere recently: Article about tanning for teen science website Posting about maternity/paternity leave & postdocs Some stuff about […]
Guelph, ON – Not To Be Trusted With Knives’ Official Statistician & Tattoo Consultant, Daniel J. Gillis achieved his most significant accomplishment since the publication of his groundbreaking work on The Count today. Eye witnesses report that Daniel, formerly known as Soon-To-Be Dr. Dan, wowed the masses who attended his PhD defence at the University […]
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away ((by which I mean, at UBC)), I used to teach classes using Problem-Based Learning and an important part of my role was to guide students through self- and peer-evaluation of group work. We used a format called “SIR” where you identified a Strength of the […]
For the uninitiated ((where “uninitiated” = everyone except Kalev and I, who invented Pi Boxing Day last night)), Pi Boxing Day is the day when one traditionally boxes up all the uneaten pie from Pi Day. Except, of course, that you ate all the pie. Which makes Pi Boxing Day the best holiday because it […]